wrote on Jul 18^th, 2010 at 12:40pm:

We do not have residencia documents,live on a finca with only parcel poligon address and an empadron with that address and own 2 spanish vehicles. As an eu citizen residencia is not neccesary. We both have nie's and I have a Spanish social security number and have worked here for a catalan construction company perfectly legally. So you don't have to be resident to own a vehicle here. Re the previous post what does mot "equivalent" mean? An unregistered(in Spain) vehicle requires a mot of it's country of registration to be legal. I am not surprised the local police are getting "shirty" I know of people who are driving uk vehicles that haven't had mot's or tax for five years. But they think it's ok as they have insurance. I am sure in the event of a serious accident the insurance company will refuse to pay out on the grounds the vehicle wasn't roadworthy etc but as long as they seem to be covered when they "get pulled" by the police then everything is fine!

By "Equivalent" I mean from their country, this is not the UK, or Spain, I have deliberately not put any more details as I do not want to stir up further problems for him.

So, just to summarise, he has a perfectly legal EU reg. car from his homecountry, with all paperwork in order, the Police are trying to bully him into re registering it against EU law.

Is that perfectly clear now  ?


I also believe that you can get a Spanish ITV on your UK car and that this is legally accepted by Insurance Co's.